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HCS IT Project Manager - ISD Project Management Office

UNC Health Care

Remote · USFull-time$44.56–64.06/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$44.56–64.06/hr
Location
Remote · US
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The HCS IT Project Manager directs and coordinates projects to support the health system’s strategy, commitments, and goals. The role manages project resources, scope, schedules, budgets, risks, and stakeholder communications through project completion. It also provides mentoring and support to less experienced team members and other health system employees and contractors.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Project ManagementProject LeadershipProgram Strategy DevelopmentManaging Multiple ProjectsAnalytical SkillsCommunicationTeamworkCustomer Responsiveness

Qualifications

Bachelor's or EquivalentAssociate's Degree or EquivalentHigh School Diploma or GEDBachelor's + 5 Years Project Management, Associate's + 7 Years, or High School + 9 Years

Full job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary:

Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with the health system's strategy, commitments and goals.

Responsibilities:

  1. Acquires the necessary resources in partnership with resource owners to fulfill the planned project roles/responsibilities and activities. Manages all internal and external project resources to ensure that project scope is delivered on time, on schedule, within the approved project budget, and with a high degree of quality.

  2. Closes the project by ensuring all scoped deliverables are accepted, project documentation is stored, and project resources are released.

  3. Develops and manages the project scope and objectives, high-level timeline, and cost estimate with the project sponsor and other key stakeholders and establishes the overall project management approach. In addition, develops and manages the consolidated project plan including detailed schedule (with critical path), cost estimate, roles/responsibilities, communications, and risks.

  4. Engages the project team continuously and periodically reports project status to all key project stakeholders as well as IT Management.

  5. Provides project management mentoring, coaching, and support to less experienced team members as well as all health system employees and contractors as necessary or appropriate.

Other Information

Education Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems Management or related field (or equivalent combination of education, training and experience).

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

  • No licensure or certification required.

Professional Experience Requirements:

  • If a Bachelor's degree: Five (5) years of experience in project management.

  • If an Associate's degree: Seven (7) years of experience in project management.

  • If a High School diploma or GED: Nine (9) years of experience in project management.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

  • Proven ability to lead complex project initiatives, develop and implement program strategies, and manage multiple projects simultaneously is required. Excellent analytical and communication skills. Ability to work well in a team environment. Highly responsive to internal customers.

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Shared Services

Organization Unit: ISD Project Management Office

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range: $44.56 - $64.06 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Remote

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Morrisville

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

How this job compares

Set against the 23,028 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$44.56–64.06/hr
  • North Carolina median$53–64/hr35 hourly ranges
  • US median$45–60/hr929 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $54.31/hr, is 12% below the North Carolina median midpoint ($62/hr) — in the middle half of Project Manager hourly ranges in North Carolina.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 684 open Project Manager jobs in North Carolina and 23,028 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in North Carolina
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (19,799 postings).
Education
12,105 of the 23,028 open Project Manager jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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